Letter: No new rights have been created since founding

Amending the Constitution by judges or courts is usurpation. Equality and justice are two of the most abused terms in America with expanding agenda-driven definitions. Actual inequality is if you target one race or gender.

On marriage, a law against gay marriage just for men is inequality. Law against gay marriage, men marrying men, or women marrying women is equality. Because it does not target a race or gender. But either law would be just for classroom argument purposes only, for gay marriage requires an amendment if we were governed right.

Our history does not support gay marriage. Which means our Constitution does not either. It is not among the life, liberty and property rights retained by the people that the Ninth Amendment ensures then and now. While it may be a little hard to list those rights protected in 1791 by the Constitution, it is far easier to identify invented rights not there in 1791 or at the 14th amendment's ratification in 1868.

In 1873, just five years after the 14th Amendment's ratification, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field wrote in an opinion, "The (14th) Amendment does not attempt to confer any new privileges and immunities upon citizens." A self-evident truth.

That does not change as judicial usurpation strengthens on all issues. John Locke warned of government by "irregular passion." It is tyranny instead of law. This would define rulings beyond constitutional limits in America.

"Irregular passion" rulings by American judges are the Constitution's No. 1 enemy.

Richard Gosnell

Spartanburg

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Letter: No new rights have been created since founding

Amending the Constitution by judges or courts is usurpation. Equality and justice are two of the most abused terms in America with expanding agenda-driven definitions. Actual inequality is if you